The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here.
Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1).
Past releases are available at the dedicated NEWS page.
UNIX
12 Best Free Command Line Games for UNIX/BSD/Linux Users.
https://www.tecmint.com/best-linux-terminal-console-games/
Audacity 3.5 Brings Cloud Project Saving and Improved BSD Support.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Audacity-3.5-Released
HP WLAN Drucker FreeBSD. [GERMAN]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3LlcKEJGAg
sudo(8) Alternatieve doas(1) Unter FreeBSD. [GERMAN]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIqqQim8y5Y
FreeBSD: Bare Bones Deployment of Virtual Machine in AWS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0dRsbL_1_w
NetBSD 9.4 Announced.
https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.4.html
OpenBSD pfctl(8) and systat(8) to Display Fragment Reassembly Stats.
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240423052538
NetBSD 9.4 Released with Security and Stability Fixes.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-9.4-Released
Meet zVault – Open Source ZFS NAS – Community Fork of TrueNAS CORE.
https://www.zvault.io/
Collection of Vagrant Boxes for Apple Silicon on ARM64.
https://gyptazy.ch/blog/collection-of-vagrant-boxes-images-for-apple-silicon-based-on-arm64/
Btrfs vs. ZFS.
https://blog.purestorage.com/purely-informational/btrfs-vs-zfs/
Beckhoff Achieves Smaller (1.5GB vs. 2.0GB) RAM Footprint by Switching from Windows to FreeBSD.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-case-studies/beckhoff-case-study/
https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Beckhoff-CASE-STUDY.pdf
Game of Trees 0.98 Released.
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240424043509
Master VLC with These 10+ Expert Tips and Tricks.
https://linuxtldr.com/tips-and-tricks-for-vlc/
QEMU 9.0 Released with True Multi Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-9.0-Released
Using syslog-ng on Multiple Platforms.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/using-syslog-ng-on-multiple-platforms
MidnightBSD – My First Impressions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0G5slB0WoU
Struggle is Real – MidnightBSD 3.1.4 Overview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1iEremLMZ8
NetApp Strategic Contributions to FreeBSD: Deep Dive into Upstreaming Efforts.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/netapps-strategic-contributions-to-freebsd-a-deep-dive-into-upstreaming-efforts/
FreeBSD Outerbase Install Script for Remote Unlockable FreeBSD with GELI Encrypted Root on ZFS.
https://github.com/emtiu/freebsd-outerbase
Future of MySQL is PostgreSQL.
https://nextgres.com/res/20240419-The-Future-of-MySQL-is-Postgres.pdf
Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04 Performance on AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and Intel Core i9 14900K.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2404-benchmarks
Installing Obsidian on FreeBSD.
https://jrgsystems.com/posts/2023-01-03-installing-obsidian-on-freebsd/
Extension that Enables MySQL Applications to Run on PostgreSQL w/o any Code Changes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40094160
Illumos Tribblix SPARC Milestone 30 Released.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139401/tribblix-sparc-milestone-30-released/
Detailed Guide to TrueNAS and OpenZFS.
https://jro.io/truenas/
Case Study: Maintaining World Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/netflix-case-study/
OpenBSD as Daily Driver.
https://www.kaidenshi.com/posts/openbsd-as-a-daily-driver/
Passphrase Timeout for Disk Decryption on OpenBSD at Boot Added as Potential Battery Lifesaver.
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240426083308
BSD Person Tries Alpine Linux.
https://rubenerd.com/a-bsd-pserson-trying-alpine-linux/
I am So Disappointed with Ubuntu 24.04.
https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-disappointment/
The checkrc(1) Tool Validates Configuration Settings in FreeBSD /etc/rc.conf File.
https://github.com/scovl/checkrc
Rust Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility with GNU Coreutils.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreutils-Uutils-0.0.26
Hardware
I Built PWM Fan Controller From Scratch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtbjlS6_sho
Eurocom 780W AC Power Adapter Review: Big Power for Big Laptops.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21331/the-eurocom-780w-ac-power-adapter-review-big-power-for-big-laptops
TIPA World Awards 2024.
https://www.tipa.com/tipa-world-awards-2024/
Slimbook Reveal Upgraded Slimbook 14 and 16 Models.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/slimbook-reveal-the-upgraded-slimbook-fedora-2-with-14-and-16-models/
Lexar SL500 Portable SSD Review: Silicon Motion SM2320 and YMTC NAND in Potent Package.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21357/lexar-sl500-portable-ssd-review-silicon-motion-sm2320-and-ymtc-nand-in-a-potent-package
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G.6 with ARM Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Leak.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T14s-Gen-6-with-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Elite-leaks-prior-to-official-release.828891.0.html
ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-155H Mini PC Review
https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-industrial-nuc-box-155h-mini-pc-review-intel-ai/
Saving 30 Years Old Sun Workstation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMz2y-wdbzs
Nearly Destroyed Commodore Gets New Life.
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/26/nearly-destroyed-commodore-gets-new-life/
Seagate/WD Hike HDD Prices Amid Surge in Demand.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21368/report-seagate-western-digital-hike-hdd-prices
Life
Who is Happiest? Married Mothers and Fathers.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-is-happiest-married-mothers-and-fathers-per-the-latest-general-social-survey
Other
Building Bluesky – Distributed Social Network.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
Bluesky Backs Project that Would let Mastodon Apps work with Its Network.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/bluesky-backs-a-project-that-would-let-mastodon-apps-like-ivory-work-with-its-network/
Who are Your Favorite Tech Youtubers.
https://lobste.rs/s/krkuc9/who_are_your_favorite_tech_youtubers
Servo Web Engine Now Passes ACID2 Layout Engine Test.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Passing-Acid2
This Month in Servo: ACID2 Redux – Servo Book – QT Demo.
https://servo.org/blog/2024/04/26/acid2-servo-book-qt/
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